[SPLIT LIP]

Also, I assembled Shin Kamen Rider.

It's frustratingly good. I say frustratingly because it's actually potentially a fantastic kit. I elected to leave out the hair and paint the skin black. The few silver pieces are pre-painted, the construction is solid and is one of the few FRS kits that feels almost like an action figure when built. The elbows and knees especially have very well-designed, natural bends. Also the sculpted textures are phenomenal.

But there's very little accessories. A single extra scarf, a single pair of chopping hands. It's really weak. He needed bare minimum some relaxed open hands, and ideally some splayed hands for grabbing poses. It severely limits posing options for a kit that's this well articulated, and no gripping hands means a hypothetical Shin Cyclone will need to come with an extra green runner with gripping had parts.

I have a feeling Bandai intentionally left the hand options out so as not to compete too much with the SHF. As it is it's still very well designed and articulated, but display options are annoyingly limited.